Sweet Turnips

Extracted from a game entry for Bitter Jam 2020.

An experiment in learning ggez, ECS (entity component systems), and event-driven architecture.

Created by JC Holder ([email protected]).

Examples

Bitter Turnips

cargo run --example bitter-turnips

Gameplay

Villagers move around every turn (sometimes overlapping).

Villagers get hungry and harvest turnips every 4 turns.

Turnips grow into an adjacent square every 3 turns.

Villagers die if they go hungry for too long.

How many villagers can you keep alive?

Controls

• W - move cursor up
• A - move cursor left
• S - move cursor down
• D - move cursor right
• Space - spawn a villager at where the cursor points

TODO

Game Ideas

• Tangy turnips: shmup (shoot-em up)
• Salty turnips: first person dungeon crawler
• Sour turnips: visual novel / dating sim
• Umami turnips: JRPG
• Roasted turnips: platformer
• Fried turnips: tactical battle